> On 16 Aug 2022, at 19:27, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I use borg and am very happy with it. As Chris, I only backup /home, > everything else is replaceable. Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc > also.
I back /home and /etc because if I missed a config change then I need /etc to rebuild. As pointed out a list of installed packages is use full to backup as well. I put that info in a file in /etc. (I keep all config in a svn repo - so should not need the /etc backup. But sometimes I miss an edit that matters and the /etc backup is noise compared to /home). Some times I have critical app data in /var and back that up as needed. Barry > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 6:05 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com > <mailto:pocallag...@gmail.com>> wrote: > On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 21:04 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 7:29 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au > > <mailto:c...@cskk.id.au>> > > wrote: > > > > > On 14Aug2022 15:22, Emmett Culley <lst_man...@webengineer.com > > > <mailto:lst_man...@webengineer.com>> > > > wrote: > > > > I've been using BackupPC for many years. It can use rsync via > > > > ssh for > > > > remote backups or rsync directly for local (LAN) backup. It can > > > > automatically dedup as well. > > > > > > We had a client using BackupPC. Maybe for a single PC it works > > > well. > > > They were backing up several (well over 10) PCs to a NAS. It > > > hammered > > > the system in both I/O and CPU. Combined with some (old kernel) > > > filesystem bugs, it would mangle the filesystem. It seems to do the > > > rsync protocol _in Perl_ at the BackupPC end, and uses an elaborate > > > hash-named file tree for the deduplication function. It needed a > > > special > > > web interface to browse/restore. > > > > > > It kind of works, but does not scale. > > > > > > > Looks like you haven't taken a look in a while. BackupPC 3.x used a > > perl > > version of rsync to add the extra stuff it needed to work, but > > BackupPC 4.x > > (which has been released for a few years now) forked rsync to provide > > the > > magic. It also now uses sqlite instead of hard links to manage > > deduplication. > > > > I only backup about 6 computers but it's for a home environment. I've > > currently got 6.36TB backed up only consuming 675GB of space. > > Just for comparison, using Borg my backup info shows: > > Original size Compressed size Deduplicated size > 2.91 TB 2.23 TB 121.89 GB > > (i.e. the actual disk usage is 121.89GB) > > That currently holds 22 backup sets (monthly, weekly and daily) going > back a couple of years. > > poc > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > <mailto:users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/> > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > <https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue> > > > -- > Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
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